Almost 10 years ago, Facebook changed the way that relationships were formed and maintained. Since the "social media" world began, it has been waiting for someone to shake it up and challenge all of the pretenses on which it was built. Enter Dave Cicirelli who took his profile out of the mundane and created the very first documented Facebook Fiction, sending his profile on a wild adventure. Each post from "Fake Dave" stretched the limits of belief of his following audience and gave "Real Dave" both a vacation from himself and soak in some of the unintentional consequences on taking a fictional journey armed with nothing but Facebook and Photoshop.
I found the book itself to be compulsively readable. The narrative was interspersed between Fake Dave's posts and the subsequent responses and Real Dave's as it continued to evolve. The result is a nice easy read.
I could almost envision myself stumbling upon Fake Dave's adventures and getting sucked into following his craziness. To a point. Maybe its just because there is a decade that separates the author and the reader but there came a point where the philosophy that started Dave's journey started to become muddled and I lost track of how a six month lie was proving a point. On the other hand, I did find myself thinking, as some of his other followers did, that liberation from the mundane would move life forward rather than holding life back.
Look this one up, it would definitely be great road trip material and a nice break from reality.
**personal reflection** I just finished book 80 on this journey to read 100 books this year, surpassing the total that I read for all of 2012. What started off as a sort of crazy goal is now 10 weeks and 20 books from being a reality! Craziness!!! **
Goodreads rating: 4 stars (closer to 3.5 but rounded up)
In Progress: Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
On Deck: The House of Hades by Rick Riordan
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